A Righteous Fire Burns At The Heart Of Women-In-Hip-Hop's 'God Save The Queens'
Kathy Iandoli goes far beyond hoisting her heroes upon a pedestal; in rendering them as conflicted, complicated artists struggling against sexism and patriarchy, she wields an illuminating fury.
In the prologue to her book God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, Kathy Iandoli recounts her time working at an Internet radio station — and how, one day in 2009, a famous rapper who was appearing in the studio referred to her by saying, "F**k that c**t."
Iandoli, at that point already a veteran of the music industry, says she quit her: Iandoli's book is rigorous, insightful, and authoritative — but it's also deadly personal.
